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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, seventy four,

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Speaker 1: Episode three of Days Like Guys, the production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into America's share consciousness. It's Wednesday, March one.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien, a k. A little bit

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Speaker 1: of cold gas in my life, A little bit of

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Speaker 1: cold gas by my side, A little bit of cold gas.

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Speaker 1: All I need a little bit of cold gas. What

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Speaker 1: I see? A little bit of cold gas in the sun.

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Speaker 1: A little bit of cold gas all night long. A

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Speaker 1: little bit of cold gas here. I am a little

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Speaker 1: British cold gas study to inform you man all right.

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Speaker 1: That is courtesy of Johnny Davis making fun of me

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Speaker 1: for constantly referencing the British cold gas Study. Um with

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Speaker 1: a little lou bega uh. And I'm thrilled to be

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Speaker 1: joined by my co host, Mr Miles. I hate to

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Speaker 1: do this to Daniel or Justin, but here we go.

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Speaker 1: Work it. Miles. It gray inside us higher, better, geister, longer,

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Speaker 1: more than daily trending. Later, Ever, after blunt is over,

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Speaker 1: smoke it hit it rip It makes us higher, better, snack,

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Speaker 1: get stronger. Thank you so much to Hank Skippy over

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Speaker 1: that dap Punk just related a k and maybe that'll

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Speaker 1: be vot quoted. I don't know, we'll see if dap

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Speaker 1: punk that was the kind you know. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I hear they're cool. Why didn't

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Speaker 1: you do that? I need you right now part a

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Speaker 1: song that you were just saying from that maga Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean. And also, guys, if you do I feel

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Speaker 1: like vo coding ever any one of my songs ever,

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Speaker 1: h M much appreciative. It would be so funny. It's like,

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Speaker 1: you know how Stalin would be like headallyaf photoshop people

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Speaker 1: out of ship like you, like you start hiring ringers

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Speaker 1: to just put the audio and they're like, damn jack

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Speaker 1: fucking saying hallelujah and it made me cry. You guys,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about it. I'm just I'm just gonna turn

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Speaker 1: my video off here for a second. Well do this

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Speaker 1: a k a mountain? They get actual rufus Wayne right.

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Speaker 1: Uh Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our

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Speaker 1: third seat by the hilarious, the talented, the brilliant Mr

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Speaker 1: no bro a r I P. Deaf punk. You guys,

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Speaker 1: even though they haven't made a record for like ten years. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I guess they just occupy this rarefied air.

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Speaker 1: You know, people were like posting things as though they

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Speaker 1: had died or like they had been like dismantled or

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Speaker 1: something like fucking vision. It's very weird. I don't full.

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Speaker 1: I don't fully it's a spoiler for one division. Not really, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not, it's not. It's spoiler for the Marvel Unit

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Speaker 1: verse at La Marble University. Yeah, and I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: those movies, and I don't I don't even know how

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Speaker 1: to put that together. But yeah, I think it's true.

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Speaker 1: Like it's not like they were put They were, you know,

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Speaker 1: prolific in the last few years. It's just they had

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Speaker 1: that weekend the song they did that weekend song, Starboy,

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Speaker 1: and that was like literally seven years ago. They haven't

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Speaker 1: really done anything. So, I mean, they've made classic albums

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Speaker 1: and I adore them, and I love the whole scene

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Speaker 1: they came from. I think it's so crazy that uh,

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Speaker 1: Daft Punk, Phoenix and Air all came from Versailles. They

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Speaker 1: lived in like Versailles in the you know, shadow of

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Speaker 1: the Palace of Versailles and ended up making this like

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Speaker 1: together and they're all like equally famous. They're all like buddies.

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Speaker 1: They all grew up together. I felt like the Phoenix

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Speaker 1: is like slightly younger than the other two, but they're

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Speaker 1: roughly maybe mentor age, but like they definitely knew each other.

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Speaker 1: Versie is not a big place, and then, uh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if I don't know, you've seen a lot of palaces.

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Speaker 1: I think Versailla is pretty big. The palace for oh

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Speaker 1: the Township also great Cuban restaurant in Los Angeles, Verse

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Speaker 1: High is nice. Um. I also wonder how much of

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Speaker 1: it is that when a band that is not associated

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Speaker 1: with its actual public or or like the person behind

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Speaker 1: the mask uh hangs it up. Then it's like then

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Speaker 1: it's like Superman dying in the Superman comics. It's like

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Speaker 1: a big deal. Um or uh, you know, just not

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Speaker 1: to make another Marvel reference, I'm a real comic book Superman,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know how I do. Uh, that's a

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Speaker 1: really good point. It's almost like they were immortal in

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Speaker 1: and like, oh yeah, no, we stopped a long time ago. Yep. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So did they just make that Starboys song or have

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Speaker 1: but I don't really think so. They did that Tron movie.

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Speaker 1: It was before the Weekends song that they did, like

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Speaker 1: Tron Legacy the soundtrack for that, and then though it's

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Speaker 1: super dope, and they put out like a like an

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Speaker 1: And they made that at Henson Studios when a buddy

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Speaker 1: just talking about that. Another person who I knew was

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Speaker 1: very thing like, Yo, they're at Henson Studios. Human beings

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Speaker 1: go work at Henson Studios if you want to have

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Speaker 1: your childhood just demolished any because you're watching like big

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Speaker 1: It's just it's have you ever been to Henson Studios?

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Speaker 1: I have not. It's so like it you can tell

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Speaker 1: I'm calling stuff out and they're like, oh yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, it's criminally spider fucked with all the webs on,

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Speaker 1: but I get it. This is your office and like,

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Speaker 1: fuck it, that's just some old ship. We don't fo

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Speaker 1: that a lot a lot of my outdoor outdoor furniture

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Speaker 1: gets that I've never heard put that way, but that

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Speaker 1: needs to be immediately trademarked. Spider fucked. Alright, No, we're

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Speaker 1: going to get to know you a little bit better

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Speaker 1: in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that minimum wage hike where where is

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the upcoming inauguration of the president

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Speaker 1: on the fourth of March. If you're not up on

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Speaker 1: your que and on game, yeah, yeah, the real inauguration.

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Speaker 1: What we saw was a fake inauguration for the corporation

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Speaker 1: that is America. But the real state that is America

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Speaker 1: actually doesn't have its inauguration until the fourth. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: that's when Donald Trump will finally accept office. Uh. So

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about sneaker resellers, specifically one who got his

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Speaker 1: mom's fired from being in charge of Nike North America,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about what New York City streets could look

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Speaker 1: like in the future. All of that plenty more. But first, NOL,

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Speaker 1: we like to ask our guest, what is something from

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Speaker 1: your search history? Friend? Oh my gosh, well, I just

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Speaker 1: typed in trump golden calf. Seapack was for y'all's benefit

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Speaker 1: for a little later in the in the episode. If

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Speaker 1: about that. Are you covering seatpack? And you talked to

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Speaker 1: you about referenced the golden calf, but we didn't talk

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Speaker 1: about the literal prayer, sessh Okay, So so you saw

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Speaker 1: so you guys are way ahead of me. But that

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Speaker 1: The people they prayed on it, like in prayer, like

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Speaker 1: the fucking thing we were joking about, being like, you're

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Speaker 1: praying to a false golden idol. Yeah, as this is

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Speaker 1: literally trying to provoke God into bringing the end times.

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Speaker 1: They're like, well, moving the embassy or like moving the

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Speaker 1: maybe they I think they don't even really know what

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Speaker 1: what that all means in the context of Christianity. But

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Speaker 1: if anybody missed the Golden Calf, it's trump in board shorts.

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Speaker 1: It looks like like we said, it looks like a

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Speaker 1: big boy statue, like a Bob's big boy statue. It's

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Speaker 1: not a holy acrid looking statue. It looks like ship.

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Speaker 1: and he's wearing flip flops and his top half is

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Speaker 1: just to suit and tie, you know, too long tie.

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand. It looks like a float from

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Speaker 1: a retirement party or something. Um, my retirement parties have floats.

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Speaker 1: We go big. What is something you think is underrated?

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Speaker 1: And I think that laser pointers as cat toys are underrated.

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Speaker 1: And I have a very personal reason for this. I

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Speaker 1: and countless others. But they are looking like the Sheba

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Speaker 1: dog meme with the two energies that this administration has

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Speaker 1: campaign Joe at his Chester. Oh yeah, exactly, yeah, thank

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Speaker 1: you for all the New York rap fans out there

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Speaker 1: for you, exactly, thank you, Dunny As would say, but

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Speaker 1: like out there and then in office like well, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, you know, the parliamentary so what the funk

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Speaker 1: is going on? The vice So then they asked the

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Speaker 1: administration what's going on. This is a quote from the

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Speaker 1: Biden National Economic Council Director Brian Deese. The vice President's

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Speaker 1: not going to weigh in. The president and the vice

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Speaker 1: president both respect the parliamentarian's decision and the process decision. Um, yeah, exactly,

436
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Speaker 1: that's all. Harris ran in the primary on fifteen dollar

437
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Speaker 1: minimum wage. If you supported her in the primary, you

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Speaker 1: remember this. Most people will were like she was getting

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Speaker 1: a lot of support because she was like, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: makes sense on top of that. But here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: Joe Mansion is a no on the fifteen dollar minimum wage.

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Speaker 1: So ships already all fucked up. But there are options

443
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Speaker 1: to to figure this out. Rather than just saying that's

444
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Speaker 1: the roadblock, you could sort Joe Mansion out. You could

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Speaker 1: try and figure out if there are other Republicans who realize, yeah,

446
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Speaker 1: that's actually that that that will help me and my

447
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Speaker 1: whatever re election bid. But again another pebble on the

448
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Speaker 1: scale to shift power to the fascist in dead. No,

449
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Speaker 1: it's not dead. They're just kind of figuring out, like,

450
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Speaker 1: well what do we do? I know, you know, Bernie

451
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Speaker 1: Sanders said he's gonna try and force a vote um

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Speaker 1: on this. But you know the other thing is like

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Speaker 1: they could they could switch, they could fire the parliamentarian

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Speaker 1: because it's all about how they're they're interpreting the bird rule,

455
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Speaker 1: which is all wonky ship and you could just get

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Speaker 1: another parliamentarian be like yeah, yeah, I'm good with this,

457
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Speaker 1: but the parliamentarian doesn't matter, right, Like that's just advice

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Speaker 1: they're getting. It's just like the idea of like I

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Speaker 1: mean exactly, it's they don't want to they don't they

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Speaker 1: want to play by the quote unquote rules. But like

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Speaker 1: all the rules we're seeing in terms of voting on

462
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Speaker 1: legislation seemed to be just there to ensure minority rule

463
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Speaker 1: or completely muck up the gears when people are trying

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Speaker 1: to swiftly you know, progress any kind of law or

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Speaker 1: you know, statute. That's frustrating, so frustrating. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's and again like they're not treating it like a

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Speaker 1: fucking big deal. And it's it's the progressives like the

468
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Speaker 1: Rashida Clive's and AOC's Corey Bush type people who are like,

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Speaker 1: what the funk are you guys doing? Just and it's

470
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Speaker 1: and to me, it's no surprise that the younger members

471
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Speaker 1: of the party are the ones who are the closest

472
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Speaker 1: in understanding what the tensions are that are pulling on

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Speaker 1: people financially in the country versus you know, twenty K

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Speaker 1: Freezer Nancy Pelosi with the Jenny's blown out, like right,

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Speaker 1: what I like, please listen to them like they're not

476
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Speaker 1: This isn't like some like weird ploy to make you

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Speaker 1: look bad. They're saying this, these are the needs of

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Speaker 1: the American people. There's nothing, there's nothing else to that. Right,

479
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Speaker 1: It's already a drop in the bucket. I mean, it's

480
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Speaker 1: already not nearly enough for like a living wage new

481
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Speaker 1: cities like Los Angeles or in cities like New York.

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense that this is this hard to

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Speaker 1: get through when there hasn't been a wage hike and

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Speaker 1: what have how many years decades? Right? Yeah, yeah, that's

485
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Speaker 1: seven seven, seven and seventy five cents right now, right,

486
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Speaker 1: what about cost of living increases, Like I mean that's

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Speaker 1: like basic human ship. Yeah, it's definitely not keeping pace

488
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Speaker 1: with anything else, like in the economy, right yeah, I

489
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Speaker 1: mean if you just look at like sort of the

490
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Speaker 1: way like the even the rules right that were fed

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Speaker 1: from like you know, your early financial literacy, it's like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't of your annual income goes to

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Speaker 1: housing or something like the thirty two discretionary expenses twenty

494
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Speaker 1: two savings or maybe some people say don't spend more

495
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Speaker 1: more more than a third on your income on rent.

496
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Speaker 1: But that's hard now, and when you look at what

497
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Speaker 1: people need to be paid, like fifteen dollars and hours

498
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: of fucking joke, right, it's it's very easy for like

499
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Speaker 1: I mean, where there's a will, Like it's easy for

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Speaker 1: me to say this, but it's true. It's been true

501
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: throughout the history of American politics that like it, you

502
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: can play politics, but or you can just be like,

503
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: well they said no, so like that's our if you

504
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: if you don't actually want to get anything done, it's

505
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: very easy to do that and just pretend like it's

506
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: somebody else's fault, right, But the or completely unacceptable. I

507
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: mean I know this as like somebody who like, there's

508
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Speaker 1: chores I want to get out of, and I'll be like, damn,

509
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Speaker 1: if like one thing goes wrong, I'm gonna use that

510
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,239
Speaker 1: as a reason and not do this ship. When they

511
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: ask why that didn't get done, I'm like, well, you know,

512
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Speaker 1: I went to the store. They didn't have the right gravel, right,

513
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: so of course I'm have to push that to another

514
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Speaker 1: few days or whatever. Ver is like, Okay, well, if

515
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: you really wanted to do this ship, how come you

516
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: didn't get it done? Well? How come away? Are you

517
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: making it hot? I'm lazy? Okay, you sound like my

518
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: four year old when I'm trying to get him to

519
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: repay the driveway the damn driveway. Alright, let's talk about

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00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: a couple of things happening on the right. One is

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00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: gab uh. We we talked last week about how parlor

522
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Speaker 1: is just a um. They're they're having a hell of

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Speaker 1: a time providing a both gab and parlor having a

524
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: hell of the time providing a competent alternative to the

525
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: social media platforms that have banned uh Nazis uh. And

526
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: it seems like there might be I don't know why

527
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: they're so consistently bad. Like maybe it's there's an informal

528
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: Internet democracy going on where the fact that most of

529
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: humanity hates fascists is hurting the fascists. But uh, so

530
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Speaker 1: we talked on Monday's episode, I think about how Parlor

531
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Speaker 1: was hacked, stripped clean of all its data, revived as

532
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: a glitchy mess with no archive, and basically rendered useless

533
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: by uh not being usable on smartphones. Well, now, gab

534
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: who I think a lot of people first heard of

535
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: when they like live streamed just a mass shooting at

536
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Speaker 1: the New Zealand mosque. They had seventy gigabytes of private

537
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: post passwords and other data just downloaded and now being

538
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: made available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists. So they're

539
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,479
Speaker 1: the This is not being like wiki leaked, where it's

540
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: just like we're dumping it and anybody who wants it

541
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: can exploit it. It's actually being specifically given to targeted

542
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: people who will use it for good and for research,

543
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: not just for memes and lulls, not just for memes

544
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: and lulls. But it is interesting just how bad these

545
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: these platforms are at at doing what they what they

546
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: intend to. It seems like there's like a sort of

547
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: sleeping giant ization of like most people have a conscience

548
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: and are are you know, not happy with that these

549
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: platforms exist, and so you're able to just throw a

550
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: the fact that the vast majority of people who know

551
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: how to code and the vast majority of hackers are

552
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: going to be on the side of you know, common

553
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: decency to to funk these people over. Um. Yeah, I

554
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: mean it's almost like hate kind of fux you up

555
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: and you start missing a lot of stuff when you're

556
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: so focused on giving your energy away to like taking

557
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: it away from other people. Yeah, but hey, I don't know.

558
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: I mean that great, great, keep fucking up and you'll

559
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: you'll will people will always be able to attract this

560
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: ship and try and bring some accountability to them. I mean, yeah,

561
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: I mean this is I'm sure these are great resources

562
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: for the researchers. So I hope, I mean, I hope

563
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: we get some something good out of it for sure.

564
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: Do you think it's just because they have such a

565
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: big target on them, or are like Republicans just typically

566
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: very bad with technology because you see this kind of

567
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: stuff happen with campaigns a lot, or I don't, I

568
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: don't know. Like it just always have struck me that

569
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Speaker 1: the right isn't quite that that's not true though, the

570
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: Trump used technology to too great success. It's just these

571
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: breaches just seem like they are either just willfully ignorant

572
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: or like they don't think they think they're safe, or

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Speaker 1: they don't care, or it just seems like, you know,

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Speaker 1: with the with the parlor thing, they were using like

575
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Speaker 1: a trial version of OCTA, the three factor authentication thing,

576
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: and like it was just not even hard to hack.

577
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: You could barely even call it a hack. They just

578
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: exploited like an obvious weakness in the platform. And I

579
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: think that sounds a lot like what happened here. Yeah,

580
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Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like they're using free trials and

581
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: ship like I think that was part of the parlor hack,

582
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: was that, like they're part of their software was written

583
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: with like a free trial that expired or something. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just I think this is partially like you know,

585
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: polite society being like, well, it's not good for us

586
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: to have money invested in Nazis. We've we've learned that

587
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: from history, and therefore, you know, it's like partially the

588
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: mainstream UH culture kind of working. They's a sick yacht. Dude,

589
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: what is this yacht cost for Billy? He's like, yeah, man,

590
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: I went in on Nazis bro heavily on that ship.

591
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: Right alright, real quick anti sponsored content. Uh yeah, let's

592
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: out of here to crisis pregnancy centers whose ads were sir,

593
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry people had to hear that ship. Yes, Uh,

594
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: we had an ad. This is something that happens from

595
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: time to time, and trying to document fucker in United

596
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: States is like drinking from a fire hose of ship.

597
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 1: But one way a terrible right wing grift can guarantee

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Speaker 1: that they'll get on our radars by sneaking an ad

599
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: onto our ad network and that ad appearing on the

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Speaker 1: Daily Zeitgeist. That's how uh the we spent a year

601
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: saying funk Fox News, Funck Wrestling bomb, fuck the Koch

602
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: Brothers at the top of the episode. Uh, and now

603
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: we will add funck crisis pregnancy centers to that list. Specifically,

604
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: Real Alternatives ran an ad on the Daily Zeitgeist. Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is just like, I mean, no, you understand this

606
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: as a fellow podcaster. This is just like there are

607
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: some ads that just get filled in that we do

608
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: not approve. Have not. It's like an opt in, opt

609
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: out in totality thing per show basically, and we then

610
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Speaker 1: it takes us to hear to be like, oh no

611
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: from this um. But you know, this is something that

612
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: we have specifically asked not to have on our network,

613
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: but that sometimes still sneaks through, and so this is

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Speaker 1: you know, any time that happens, we do want to

615
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: take a moment to kind of educate people about the

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00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: shitty thing that ran an ad Uh. So real quick

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00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 1: summary of what crisis pregnancy centers are. Uh. They disguise

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Speaker 1: themselves as actual medical clinics while being staffed by volunteers

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Speaker 1: with no medical training. The medical advice they give is

620
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: shot through with misinformation about abortions and just about women's

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Speaker 1: options when they are pregnant. Uh. It's purely ideologically driven

622
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: to try to steer anyone who comes to them with

623
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Speaker 1: a pregnancy away from abortion. Uh, and just disguising that

624
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: by they claim. They give false information about pain caused

625
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: to the fetus an abortion. Uh, they give false information

626
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: about depression being a symptom or something that's caused to

627
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: a woman who has an abortion. Uh. They will even

628
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: delay ultrasounds to make sure the mother here's a heartbeat,

629
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: because that's like the anti choice equivalent of like propaganda.

630
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Speaker 1: Um yeah, the heartbeat bill right right. People who got

631
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: care at a facility were told, uh that abortion is

632
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: a liberal elite scheme, uh trying to at black population

633
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: control basically. Um, so they do a lot of damage

634
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: and uh manipulative. It's fucking evil. The fact that you

635
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Speaker 1: set up a scam like a prank show set, where

636
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Speaker 1: you have all this medical equipment around you to give

637
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: this some semblance of legitimacy is so fucking cynical and

638
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: fucked up. Yeah, Like it's a straight trash And you

639
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: see billboards like when they the billboards are like worse.

640
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: It's like a confused pregnant person with their hand on

641
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: their head and it's like, oh are you pregnant, don't worry,

642
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: We're here to help. And then they want to talk

643
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: about of just doing whatever you want to do with

644
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: your own body, um, which is so fucked up. So yeah,

645
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,439
Speaker 1: you to eat a pilish ship. When I read about

646
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: it originally like from from this, I've never heard of it. Um,

647
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: it sounded to me like super CULTI like they're trying

648
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: to like, you know, indoctrinate women or like get them

649
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: to convert to Christianity or something. But it turns out

650
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's also like it's it's it is that,

651
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: but it's also like you know, in terms of the data,

652
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: it's a lot of people that are already going in

653
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: that direction anyway, So I don't quite understand. Yeah, there

654
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: there's a study on it that says like it's a

655
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: lot of preaching to the converted and like the people

656
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: who take advantage of it usually we're already planning on having, uh,

657
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: giving birth to the child. But that the study is

658
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: a little bit limited in the sense that it it

659
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: only sampled people who went to those clinics and then

660
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 1: actually gave birth, so it doesn't sample anybody went to

661
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: those clinics and then had an abortion. And either way,

662
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: the existence of something like that is fucked up. And also,

663
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: all you have to do is look at the advertising

664
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: strategy of them, and like, like the billboards, Miles, you're

665
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: talking about the fact that they're like putting ads just

666
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: like blasting ads across podcast networks to be like hey guys,

667
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: we're here to to help. Um. You can go to

668
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: www dot expose fake clinics dot com uh, to kind

669
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: of learn more about about this practice. But it's also

670
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Speaker 1: taxpayer funded, so yeah, cold t but also you know,

671
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Speaker 1: funded by you your money, so um. All right. This

672
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: is an article from Wired that I really liked. It's

673
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: written by a guy named Cal Newport uh who just

674
00:38:56,239 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: released a book called A World Without Email, and he

675
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: basically raises this overarching point that tech might not be

676
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: might just be making us busier and not actually making

677
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: us more productive. Right, No, I mean it's yeah, it's

678
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: who the thought for all the times we're like yeah, man,

679
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: because look we all see ship and we see a

680
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: technological advancement, go oh wow, that makes that thing so

681
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: much easier. Actually, thank you technology. Um. And he just

682
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: kind of raising this point. It's like we have to

683
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: kind of stop defaulting to being like, all tech makes

684
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: working so much easier and collaborating easier and therefore will

685
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: be more productive when the data does not support that

686
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: at all. He's talking about when the PC came out

687
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: and began being worked or introduced into workplaces, people were like, Wow,

688
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: this thing is great and it's making everything easier. But

689
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: a lot of when they really started crunching the numbers

690
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: as to what was happening, um like in these like

691
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: major corporations with the introduction of computers. They were like, nah,

692
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: there's there's this kind of a disconnect between like what's

693
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Speaker 1: easy and like what's effective. It seems to actually like

694
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: it sort of rearranges people's time in a way that

695
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: causes more issues. Like so, for example, they did a

696
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 1: study like back in the late eighties and nineties about

697
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Speaker 1: these five major corporations that were replacing their typing pools,

698
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Speaker 1: like where people were the typest to get you your

699
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: documents and ship with word processors, where people could like

700
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Speaker 1: type on computers and get that ship quote unquote a

701
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: lot easier or quicker. But they found that the typing pool,

702
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: all their work fell to the people whose work they

703
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: were supporting as a typing pool, and then created a

704
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Speaker 1: need for now more expensive, higher paid managers to keep

705
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Speaker 1: the newly minted typists to keep churning out the work.

706
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Speaker 1: So it really increased staffing costs by with not even

707
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Speaker 1: this not a proportionate increase in output or productivity. So

708
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: now the focus is being put on this for so

709
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Speaker 1: for this writer talking about you know, slacking email is

710
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: kind of like this whole new thing where you know,

711
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Speaker 1: this is a quote from him says in two thousand five,

712
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: just based on numerous studies found in two thousand five,

713
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: we were sending and receiving fifty emails a day. In

714
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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, it jumps to sixty nine. By

715
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven it was ninety. Today we send and

716
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: receive an estimated one hundred twenty six messages, checking our

717
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: inboxes once every six minutes on average. So we're basically

718
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: spending more time just talking about work and not having

719
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: like the uninterrupted hours to do the work. Um, so

720
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: that's why they're like, what, we actually need to have

721
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: a reckoning here because like gmails now, even finishing our

722
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: sentences which seems convenient, but like, is that actually gonna

723
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: make me more efficient? And we'll just give you allow

724
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: you to get to the next email quicker. Right. You're

725
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: you know, constantly distracted. And I think the answer to

726
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: this problem isn't easy. Even as the author of the

727
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: opinion pieces, it's not going to be easy. But we

728
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: have to actually begin to slow down and begin to

729
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: solve this issue because it's it's like this weird, this

730
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: that's the productivity paradox as it's called like we don't

731
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: know how much is actually helping and points to like

732
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 1: other industries where they have more of like a project

733
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: like project management protocols where teams spend less time talking

734
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: what they're doing, and it's like checkboxes and being like,

735
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: these are my tasks I have to get done. Tic

736
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: tic tic tic tic, I'm done. I can check in

737
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: when I'm done with my tasks, versus like, hey, where's

738
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: that test? You know, there's just checking in on this

739
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: task and leave people to their own devices to just

740
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: start work uninterrupted. But that only works for specific industries.

741
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: And I think it's this I think opinion piece raises

742
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: like the larger question of how are we going to

743
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: uh ourselves try and solve this problem by taking a

744
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: moment to look at these inefficiencies. Yeah, giving us busy

745
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: work that we can do efficiently while not making our

746
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: overall productivity any higher, and also not giving us like

747
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: any way of any time to think about whether like

748
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: the overall like philosophical and ethical implications of the work

749
00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 1: we're doing. Like that's that's feels like a huge chunk

750
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: of what we're dealing with, Like in a world where

751
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: the problem is that we keep observing the same social

752
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: injustices over and over and over and nobody's ever doing

753
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: anything about them. Like that that feels uh, super relevant,

754
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: that we're that weird and like just that I feel

755
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: like this expands to social media too, right, Well, I

756
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: mean the way you talk about too, it's just sort

757
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: of like what the pandemic offered people societally, societally for

758
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: a moment where ships slowed down very quickly, and now

759
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: we had in one year increased class consciousness, increased consciousness

760
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 1: around white supremacy and things like that that I'm sure.

761
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I don't think those things are unrelated,

762
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: like because we had the time to think, to see,

763
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: to process versus like I gotta get I gotta I

764
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: know that should happen, Oh, another unarmed person got killed,

765
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: but I gotta send these emails. Oh my boss hitting

766
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: me up on slack. I gotta get, Like, Yeah, where

767
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: do you find the time to say? Wow? How do

768
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: I solve? Like I'm seeing people who are hungry in

769
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: my neighborhood? Like what am I? How? What what's going on?

770
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: How do how do we are there things I can

771
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: put my energy towards on the flip side of that though.

772
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: That's probably how Q and Non started too. You know,

773
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: people have this like gap they needed to fill, you know,

774
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: and like like you know, soccer moms at home clicking

775
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: around on the internet looking for something to kind of

776
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: validate their feelings, you know, and then that's when they

777
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: go startling down these like internet rabbit holes. And I

778
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: think that's how that picked up so much steam and

779
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: got mainstream so quickly. So I do think there's like

780
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: a dark side to it as well. Yeah, I don't

781
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: think anything is absolutely good or bad, but yeah, I

782
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: think but overall, uh, I think we're we would greatly benefit,

783
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Speaker 1: at least in the context of I mean ship. You know,

784
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: I'm glad people woke the funk up even slightly, but

785
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: what cost The other thing, though, with our workplaces now

786
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 1: is how are we like we have to like kind

787
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: of think about what this whole way of work, like,

788
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: what our whole mode of working is and is it

789
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to do this thing of like everyone

790
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: is interconnected at the exact same time, and we can

791
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: start firing off messages to each other without overloading our

792
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: own circuits and capacity to just do like focused you

793
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: know work whatever our jobs are, or even like all

794
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: these like unnecessary zoom meetings about other meetings, and like

795
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 1: you said, it's all just meta think kind of about

796
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: talking about working instead of actually doing something. You have

797
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: to like talk about it first and then kind of agree,

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00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: and you could have just done all that in the

799
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Speaker 1: first place, or had to be like one email instead

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Speaker 1: of a our you know, waste of time zoom call. Yeah,

801
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: because they talk about even just like how certain activities

802
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: in the beginning with like a computer were more efficient.

803
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: Book just it creates more work, right, So like if

804
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: you if you're like there was a you're running a business.

805
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: Instead of having an accountant update your ledgers that were

806
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 1: on paper, a business owners like, well, I got quick books,

807
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: Now I got a spreadsheet. Now I can do this,

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00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: and I can do it maybe just a little bit

809
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: worse than my account right exactly, which is fine, I

810
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,439
Speaker 1: get it. It might be easier than this paper book

811
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Speaker 1: that you have to like work through. But over like

812
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,919
Speaker 1: to saying, but practically business owners now just have less

813
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: time to do the other things that might be more

814
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: important because they're like, well, since it's easier, I can

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00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: take this on. And what we're doing is we'll be like, well,

816
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: that's easier. I can take that on. I can take

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00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: it on, and then we're really we're becoming more and

818
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 1: more unbalanced. Yeah, I think that's part of an overall

819
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 1: issue that like will be continuously documenting of just overall

820
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: like kind of broad but invisible social issues that are

821
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,919
Speaker 1: giving us a lot of the issues that we're having

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00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: right now. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll

823
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: be right back, and we're back and real quick update.

824
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Speaker 1: Trump's secret inauguration is this week. I don't know if

825
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: you booked your room at the Trump Hotel and DC yet,

826
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: but yeah, if you, if you haven't been paying attention

827
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Speaker 1: to the Q and on the World, o Q and

828
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Speaker 1: on Q actually hasn't posted since December. But there are

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Speaker 1: theories being propagated by the Sovereign Citizens UH, a loose

830
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: movement of anti government extremists who believe they are immune

831
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Speaker 1: from the law. There are some really fun videos of

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Speaker 1: these people who are just getting called the fun Around

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00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: and find Out clips on YouTube where you get to

834
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Speaker 1: see them funk around and find out in one very

835
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: satisfying clip. They're also started with like a nineteen seventies

836
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: super anti Semitic theory based around posse comitatas and yeah,

837
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: it's all it all goes back to, you know. Yeah. Uh.

838
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: But so they believe March four is going to be

839
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: Trump's the real election because uh three was the year

840
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: when inaugurations were changed from March fourth to January. UM.

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Speaker 1: And in case you don't recognize, nine thirty three is importance,

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Speaker 1: that was the year the f DR sold the U

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Speaker 1: S citizens uh to foreign interests. Um. I don't know

844
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: if you knew that, but that happened. Uh so Trump

845
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: there The big piece of evidence they're pointing to that

846
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: proves this is true is that Trump's d C hotel

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00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: jacked up its rates by one eight percent for March fourth.

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00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: Usually the least expensive room at Trump International is four

849
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: dred and seventy six dollars, but now it comes at

850
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: five per night on that night. By the way, just

851
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: a fun little effect, the least expensive room at Trump International,

852
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: uh comes with a king sized bed with a opulent

853
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: headboard topped with a gilded crown. UM so cool, just

854
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: to set the scene. But yeah, the reservations team from

855
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: the hotel, I think Snopes did some reporting on this, uh,

856
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: and the reservations team was like, it could just be

857
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: because so many people are trying to book a room

858
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: that night because they believe this bullshit theory. Yeah, and

859
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: it's just demand what are they gonna do the qing

860
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: On community. I mean, like you can only kick the

861
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: can down the road so much before there's no can

862
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: or road to even do this with anymore, like the

863
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: moving of the goal posts. And I see this a lot,

864
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: like especially in the fallout of the fallout of like

865
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: the reality check of the inauguration that a lot of

866
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: people had of like trying to figure out what they

867
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: start saying now, like do we keep saying that we

868
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen? Do we not? Are we

869
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: sure about this March fourth thing? Like especially for the

870
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: people who are peddling this bullshit, because clearly they're worried

871
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: too about like well I can't like I can't funk

872
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: up my my trustworthiness as a que and misinformation peddler

873
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: that Like it's also there's divides within Q and On

874
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: to be like, well, I don't some people think it's

875
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: March fourth. I don't know, right, Yeah, Yeah, there was

876
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: like an internal schism between people who at first said

877
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: March fourth, it was going down, but then started backpedaling

878
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: when they realized that literally nothing that they've been predicting

879
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: has actually happened, and so they uh you know, it's

880
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: it's now a pattern among the smart que people to

881
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, this is going down, it's March fourth,

882
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: and then like right before that, be like, actually we

883
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: just got new intelligence, and uh we're gonna push that

884
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: off to March. I think actually I meant March and

885
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: then March forty five, and really that is April fourteen, Like, um,

886
00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: actually that's what is MA tax day? April five teen.

887
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: Oh my god, y'all essentially makes so much sense. Uh

888
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 1: you should do this for a living. Um, but other

889
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: better conspiracy theories and the motherfuckers take years. But they

890
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 1: think that, like they're also the people who are like,

891
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: we need to take things into our own hands and

892
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: make this happen on March four. So uh there they

893
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: have uh left I think five thousand National Guard troops

894
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: in d C just to because there is so much

895
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: chatter around this, I mean there's always like like what

896
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: does that look like? If this thing happens the way

897
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 1: they're hoping, they just like wheel him into town on

898
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: like a golden chariot and like found him or something like.

899
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like some fucking Ghostbusters ship it sounds

900
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: like or something. It's really really sinister brothers, Like what

901
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: the like they? I mean though, it really is fantastic.

902
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: It's that like it's like you would write it in

903
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: your own way. Joe Biden, uh and Comma will be

904
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 1: in cuffs and they have to walk by the President

905
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: Trump as he salutes them flippantly and we're gonna love it.

906
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: And then he's it's like, what the I don't know,

907
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,959
Speaker 1: I mean, but I guess that's how invested these people

908
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: are in there, Like fantasy World, Yeah, that's their avatar,

909
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,760
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like going back to Pandemic

910
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: and Pandora Baby, Oh my god, it's exhausting, isn't it. Yeah,

911
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: I wonder what that overlap is from the Pandora support

912
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: group people and like January six and insurrectionists. I mean,

913
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: they're definitely providing the same service to people right there.

914
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: Remember then, remember that time there is research that's suggesting

915
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: that like most queuing on people like don't actually believe

916
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: the stuff. It's like more of a like half hearted

917
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: they read about it because it's like a fun story

918
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: for them to believe in, but it's like they're not

919
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: actually going to do anything with their chest out. So

920
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 1: those are probably the April people. Yeah, but I mean

921
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like even when they

922
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: do like those poles and it's like only seven percent

923
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: of Americans and you're like, that's millions, Yeah, a lot

924
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: of people. Yeah. Let's talk about sneaker resellers. This gentleman,

925
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: uh who goes by the name of what is the

926
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: West Coast Streetwear on Instagram? I think, oh, give him,

927
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: don't make him sound cool. I think he's very cool, Miles.

928
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: He's a piece of shit reseller. Just the built in

929
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: hostility for this guy. Uh. Okay, let me tell you something,

930
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: as a fucking lifelong sneaker head, as all sneaker has

931
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: no now, the refrain is the game is all fucked

932
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: up now. Yes, it used to be people fucked with

933
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: sneaker because they wanted them, some to collect, but mostly

934
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: to wear because that was our way of expressing or

935
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: something like yo, I got these fresh kicks on or whatever.

936
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: That's just that's there are personal thing um. And then

937
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: resellers completely fucked the game up. Where these people try

938
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,919
Speaker 1: and buy a large amounts of product to take away

939
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: from people who want to wear them personally, and then

940
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: they resell them on your ebays or your stock x

941
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: or consignment stores for massive profits. Because sneaker culture has

942
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: become much more popular that now coveted pairs of shoes

943
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: are going for thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars,

944
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: sort of like the ticket scalpers using bots and all

945
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: of that, I mean similar and no different bots are

946
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: being used for sneakers, and like sneaker drops where suddenly

947
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: it used to be like you could line up outside

948
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: of a foot locker and if you were there in

949
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: the morning when they opened up, you could get the

950
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: shoe you on it because you were there because you

951
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: bothered to get up, or you were online you bothered

952
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: to refresh the foot locker or Nike website and then

953
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,959
Speaker 1: you get click and then you were like, yes, okay,

954
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 1: I got my ship. But now ship it's like fucking

955
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: locals devouring ship. Like the second you try and load

956
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: the page like sold out and you're like, how in

957
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: the fund did this happen? Well? I uh so, yeah,

958
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: this was just uh if nothing else an interesting look

959
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: at like, how what you're describing happens for somebody who's

960
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: like I, only you know, I'll try and get get

961
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: the shoes when they dropped every once in a while,

962
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: almost never am successful. Uh And eventually, like you know,

963
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: spend too much money on the shoes on stock X

964
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: or got um the reason for that? Uh? He So

965
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,880
Speaker 1: the this is just like a a look at his

966
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: day on a day that there's a big shoeedrop. Uh.

967
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: The day of these easies were released, he'd woken at

968
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: three am, signed onto the messaging platform discord um, gotten

969
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: fifteen members of a cook group, a term sneaker resellers

970
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,879
Speaker 1: used to describe like basically people who work for them.

971
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: Uh to they all just like get together, use a

972
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: use code and buy up all the shoes um, which

973
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,439
Speaker 1: are supposed to only go to one customer. Uh. By

974
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,240
Speaker 1: six am, the shoes were sold out and his bots

975
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: had rung up one and thirty two thousand dollars on

976
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: his m X, And then, in almost as a little

977
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: time as it had taken him to buy them, he

978
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: had sold them for a twenty dollar profit. Um. So, wait,

979
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 1: where do you get on? Uh? So, how does a

980
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: nineteen year old young man have so much capital. So uh,

981
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: the reason this is making news yesterday is that this

982
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: young man's mother, uh turns out and this the article

983
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: actually mentions, this is the head of North American operations

984
00:56:56,680 --> 00:57:05,439
Speaker 1: for a small uh you wear a company called Nike Shoes. Yeah.

985
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 1: I heard it was also on his mother's corporate AMMX

986
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 1: that he was using to buy up shoes. And also

987
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: I heard that he was using his mother's discount to

988
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: procure even more pairs from certain outlets. Allegedly he denied.

989
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: So she resigns, Yeah, she resigned. I'm genuinely not sure

990
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: if she's leaving out a shame or because she's going

991
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: to go run his business with him, because she sees

992
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: a market. Because the way they talk about this is like, yeah,

993
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: I know, this is I mean, this is the thing

994
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: that is I opening about this article is that they're like,

995
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: this is just what stock traders do every day, Like

996
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: what this dude does they And that's always been my

997
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: suspicion is that like the stock market is all about

998
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: just finding these little inefficiencies, making people pay, just gaming

999
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: a vast system to try and eke out like find

1000
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: a market, make money off that market, and not provide

1001
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: literally any value to anyone, not to mention if you

1002
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,959
Speaker 1: have access to one of those like Bloomberg terminals or whatever,

1003
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 1: which costs like a hundred thousand dollars a year or

1004
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: something insane that access to, or if you have this

1005
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: kind of insider information on you know, the sneaker situation. Yeah,

1006
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: I mean it makes sense, and we're obviously moving towards this,

1007
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: like everything is a commodity, you know, society, like with

1008
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: things like you know, bitcoin and cryptocurrency that literally represent

1009
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: nothing but are just bought and sold and traded and

1010
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: using all this energy. And so I'm sorry put on

1011
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: a soapbox, but it's just it's all kind of part

1012
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: and parcel of the same conundrum, right. Yeah. The big

1013
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: issues for me too are like one, as a sneaker head,

1014
00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: specifically his mother's purview. In his there's purview was running

1015
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: the sneakers app, which anyone who tries to buy hype

1016
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: sneakers nose Nike only has one way to get this.

1017
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 1: You go on this app, you join a que or

1018
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: a lottery system, and you pray to the consumer gods

1019
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: that you will get a hype sneak. Most of the

1020
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: time you don't. It's like a meme in the senior community.

1021
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: It's like Yep, took an L, taking taking another L

1022
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: this Saturday morning or whatever, and then to know that

1023
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 1: this guy's mother is running. I mean like there's there's

1024
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: so many more questions I have because it's like it's

1025
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: almost like like so like someone at Nike was back

1026
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 1: during their own product out of sneakers to the resell

1027
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: market just to get so is this different and maybe

1028
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: less like going to you there are more rather than

1029
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: like some of those boutique shops like on Melrows that

1030
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: have like the sneakers in plastic, like maybe like last year's.

1031
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 1: You know, it's the same thing. They're just doing it's

1032
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: on consignment to like they're not selling it for the

1033
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: retail price. If you're not selling ship for the retail price,

1034
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: I'm angry, uh And I get it, but that sometimes

1035
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: you have to go to these secondary markets to get

1036
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: the shoes or whatever. All that to say, a very

1037
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:14,439
Speaker 1: small problem, a very small minor problem overall for most people.

1038
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: But like when you also look at the amounts of

1039
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: money that's being it's just like it's it's again, it's

1040
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: just a it's just a mirror reflection of America, but

1041
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: we're just seeing it play out in this very specific way.

1042
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: I mean the whole, the whole. So capitalism we we

1043
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: keep talking about is a system that is designed to

1044
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 1: preserve capital and like help people with capital maintain their capital.

1045
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: That's not but like this this is illustrates sort of

1046
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 1: something that we're seeing with like like you said, no,

1047
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: the bitcoin, the top shot, like the digital trading cards.

1048
01:00:54,280 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: It's like value is being completely decoupled from and like

1049
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: they're not they're not providing any value. They're just like it, shoes,

1050
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: I guess are more than any of those other things.

1051
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: But it's it's just finding inefficiencies, squeezing money out of

1052
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: other people, you know, preying on people who are less

1053
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: advantaged than you. And it's just like the whole, the

1054
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: whole argument for a market economy is like that it

1055
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: uses yet value and like demand and supply to like

1056
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 1: allocate things intelligently, and we've just completely lost track. Like

1057
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: that's that's gone and never coming back. So like I

1058
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that argument. Like when when people

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Speaker 1: are trying to argue that like socialism is bad, it's this,

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01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: this is not better than anything you can get healthcare.

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01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: It's like, well, how much can we get away with

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Speaker 1: charging people to ship? Like, well ship, if they're gonna

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01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 1: pay it, why are we gonna pay? Why are we

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01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: gonna do it for less? Not to say that sneakers

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01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: are the same as like life saving insulin or something

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01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:09,959
Speaker 1: like that, but it's there, like with this resell market

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01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: is like, well, how thirsty are you for this thing?

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Speaker 1: Because that's how much it costs. It's not what it's worth.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna pray on how desperate you are to

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01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: even because danials in the chat right now, Yes, on

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01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: stock X there are PS five's, there are video cards

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Speaker 1: their ship that is not even sneakers that people are

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01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: like and yeah, you're just being like, okay, well how

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01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: bad is your fomo poppy? I think it's interesting bring

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Speaker 1: up with healthcare firms. I mean, it really is just

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01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 1: about like a lack of empathy there's there in this system.

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01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: There's just no thinking of individuals. It's just like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is all. It almost sounds cliche to say allow,

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01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 1: but it's like just profits over everything and you don't

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Speaker 1: think about human beings, and like you know, in socialist

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Speaker 1: countries or places, where they have socialized healthcare they do,

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01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: or they you know, subsidize artists and people that are

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01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: choosing to live their lives in this way where they're

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01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 1: providing this amazing thing for other people to enjoy that's

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01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: considered valuable, you know. And they're people are there people

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01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 1: are no better than our people. They they're people are

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Speaker 1: not uh, you know, don't have more empathy. It's just

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01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 1: a system. They have a system that takes that empathy

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01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: and that like fundamental understanding that we will not allow

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Speaker 1: somebody to die because they don't have enough money. Uh,

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01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: and they take that as a baseline, like that is

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01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: what the entire system is built on. Uh. And we

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01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 1: have a system where that is drilled out of it

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Speaker 1: by billions of dollars of marketing and uh, you know,

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01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: things that are designed to distract us from from our empathy. Yeah,

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01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 1: it's on site for this reseller. I'm telling you that

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01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 1: the sneaker community hates this little fucking guy. Is this

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01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 1: is the other thing. He he would post these images

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01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: of like hundreds of boxes of like Yeezy's or Jordan's,

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01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 1: and the people post that people flex like this on

1101
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: Instagram all the time. These resellers, and you're like, how

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Speaker 1: the fund does this person have this many pairs of shoes,

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01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 1: Like it's impossible, Like you don't know enough people that

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01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:22,439
Speaker 1: are have enough addresses, And when you start seeing these stories,

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01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: you're like, of course it's someone who's fucking hooked up

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01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: at this level. Um. But yeah, he was not like

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01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 1: admitting to the author of this article like who his

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01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: mom was. But uh, at the beginning of the article,

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01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: when he was still collaborating with them, he was like,

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01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: if you know the right people here, this is the

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Speaker 1: city to sell shoes. He lives in Portland. Mom is

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Speaker 1: the head of Nike. Um. Nor the right people can

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01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 1: give you access to stuff like that or to stuff

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01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 1: that like a normal person would not have access to. Uh,

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01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: that's amazing that he was shrewd enough to be born

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01:04:56,200 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 1: to the head of Nike North America. What a brilliant businessman. Hey,

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01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 1: but you know what how American? You know what I mean?

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01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 1: Using your parents connects to start fucking making your own

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01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 1: nepotism one and then not even being like ashamed of it,

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01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: almost using that as another like sub flex within the

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01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 1: like stacks of sneakers. Is yeah, I got it, and

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01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: you don't. I mean, that's the takeaway. When the reporter

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01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 1: was like, so we know that your mom is the

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01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 1: head of nig North America. He was like, you can't

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01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,480
Speaker 1: mention that in the article. And they were like, of

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01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: course we're going to mention that. And so he then

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01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: stopped cooperating with the with the article. And the thing

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Speaker 1: is that's not going to hurt his recall business. No, no, no, no, no,

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01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: people are gonna still buy. You know, people were still

1130
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 1: the hypoc because now it's global and it's not just

1131
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 1: Americans that are paying out, like it's all over the place.

1132
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 1: And yeah, let's let's talk about something hopeful real quick.

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01:05:55,880 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 1: Uh New York City streets two points a a vision

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01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 1: uh that that has been put out there. Uh So

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01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 1: New York City has been through a lot of changes

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01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: since the pandemic, and we've talked a little bit about

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01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 1: how why why change back? If you know they converted

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01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: miles and miles of road uh to you know, just

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01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: uh pedestrian and you know parking or not parking, uh,

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01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: dining areas and just like basically open, open source communal

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01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 1: space and that somebody has kind of put together a

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01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: plan where you would take one in every four of

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01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: the city's nineteen thousand miles of driving lanes and three

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01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: million free on street parking spaces and open just you know, thousands,

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01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 1: a thousand miles of pedestrian streets um mile. As you

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01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 1: put this together, yeah, well it's just a good it's

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01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: a great I mean, it's funny. Now, there's a lot

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01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 1: of people who um, like especially in New York politics,

1149
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: who are bringing this up as an issue for the city,

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01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 1: Like the there's local people who were for the municipality

1151
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 1: wore like we should really think about making this permanent.

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01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: There are people who are running for a mayor who

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01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: are like making this part of their platform about taking

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01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 1: the streets and like being like it wasn't this great

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01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 1: how we had like from being in our apartments. We said, hey,

1156
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: you can kind of walk outside and stretch your ship

1157
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 1: out and do what you gotta do in the public space.

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01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 1: So this group called Transportational Alternatives is saying, okay, of

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Speaker 1: the streets, if we modify it for pedestrians, what can

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Speaker 1: we do. So yeah, Jack, you're saying, a thousand miles

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01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:40,800
Speaker 1: of pedestrians streets is the first thing you would create.

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01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: Then it could open one car free block for play

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01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: outdoor learning, and pick up and drop off outside of

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01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:50,439
Speaker 1: each of the city's sevent d public schools. Okay, great,

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01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 1: I like that put every resident within a five minute

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01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: walk of five hundred miles of bus lanes and forty

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01:07:57,200 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: miles of bus ways, and within a quarter mile of

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01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: five miles of like real bike lanes, like protected from

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01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,520
Speaker 1: cars bike lanes, like legit bike lanes, which is because

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01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: people were bikes. It's not necessarily a case in New

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01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: York City's current bike lanes. You're you're basically out there,

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01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:18,560
Speaker 1: uh dodging and like bumping up again, like trying to

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01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: box out a taxi while you're riding and praying a

1174
01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: door doesn't fly open in the middle of you know,

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01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: you're trying to get to where you gotta go. And

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01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 1: so yeah, it would put it just does all these things.

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01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: It would They could potentially plant fifteen thousand new trees,

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01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: the equivalent of adding almost an entire central park to

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01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:37,840
Speaker 1: the city's canopy uh thirty eight million square feet for

1180
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:40,560
Speaker 1: neighborhoods to allocate for whatever they want. You want to

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01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: build a little uh five, like a little a soccer

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01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 1: court for some street footsall cool, you want to build

1183
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 1: a basketball, handball court, whatever, the garden whatever. Yeah. And

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01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 1: then also it established hubs for street vendors, benches, trees,

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01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:56,360
Speaker 1: public bathrooms, bike charging outside of every one of the

1186
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: subway stations. Like there's when you think of like all

1187
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,919
Speaker 1: these things that it happened, it makes you really realize

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01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: that the like how much we can actually use these

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01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: kinds of public spaces because right now it's like I know,

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01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: I have my house, I walk to and from on

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01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: this sidewalk, and then I go to my destination and

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01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:14,719
Speaker 1: everything in between just kind of like something I passed

1193
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: through versus something that will add to my sense of community,

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01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 1: because that's ultimately what the one of the higher benefits

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01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: of something like this. Yeah, I want to start highlighting

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01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 1: more ideas like this that are like like we should

1197
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 1: not settle for anything less than this, Like we should

1198
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,680
Speaker 1: not settle for In Los Angeles, the same thing is

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01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: uh happens with like uh, like the one percent has

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01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: all these country clubs that are the best park space

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01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:43,040
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles that you have to pay two hundred

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01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year to access. Um like it's and

1203
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: on our taxes are funding and our taxes funded uh,

1204
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:55,439
Speaker 1: it's bonkers. And it's just like there are these things

1205
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: that we just take as like well that's given, because

1206
01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: that like our if you just view them with fresh eyes,

1207
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:06,360
Speaker 1: make literally no sense. They should not exist and we

1208
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 1: need to, you know, just realize that we can change

1209
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,760
Speaker 1: these things. We like the vast majority of people would

1210
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: benefit from changing these things. And yeah, there's uh so

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01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,080
Speaker 1: this is an overall movement in New York City. If

1212
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 1: you live in New York City, Uh, get on it,

1213
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:28,640
Speaker 1: like find a way to contribute. Uh and l A,

1214
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 1: let's let's do something about these fucking country clubs. Man.

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01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: I'm so pissed about the country club. I remember, like

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01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: I had a friend who like, whose backyard would look

1217
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:42,360
Speaker 1: you could like look into a country club and You're

1218
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:44,680
Speaker 1: like it was the first time I had seen a

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01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: country club. You know what the fun is that you

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01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 1: gotta park And they're like, oh no, that's the Wilshire

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01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: country Club. This is somebody who's on my hockey team

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01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:53,600
Speaker 1: who's family was doing very well and we had a

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01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:55,679
Speaker 1: team party there and I'm like they're like, oh yeah,

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01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 1: you guys can go on the golf course to play

1225
01:10:57,479 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: bacchi And I'm like what the funk are y'all talking about?

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01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 1: And I look in their back like I just thought

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01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:04,360
Speaker 1: it was someone else's yard. And then we hopped the

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01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 1: fence and I'm like, it's this whole fucking golf course

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01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 1: in this part of town. I didn't know as a

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01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,679
Speaker 1: kid was here. And You're like, this place looks fucking magical.

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01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 1: Yet again, we're limiting the access to people who, you know,

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01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,799
Speaker 1: I really don't need it and don't deserve it, cutting

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01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:23,439
Speaker 1: off our outdoor spaces to like children, anybody you can fund,

1234
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 1: go work all your devil sticks. The rich guys can

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01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 1: go there and like network and that. That's literally you

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01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:35,599
Speaker 1: think they're spending two hundred thousand dollars a year because

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01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 1: they love golf. They're doing it because they know it's

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01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:40,760
Speaker 1: a good investment to you know, make more money. And

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01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: it's like a yet another it's a literal like castle

1240
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 1: wall being put up by the one percent, uh to

1241
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: allow them to do business where nobody else can access them.

1242
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 1: So fuck country clubs and uh fuck New York City

1243
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:01,679
Speaker 1: streets until they are all parks or least the vast

1244
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:09,759
Speaker 1: majority turn New York into I am legend just mannequin

1245
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 1: parties in every intersection. Yes, thank you. Uh no, it's

1246
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 1: been a pleasure having always Thanks for having me back.

1247
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:21,599
Speaker 1: Where can people uh find you and follow you? Sure

1248
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:23,919
Speaker 1: you can find me. I'm pretty much just on Instagram.

1249
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 1: I'm at how Now Noel Brown or you can listen

1250
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,519
Speaker 1: to me on one or all of three podcasts, and

1251
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 1: I'm on Corporeally uh stuffing they Don't want you to Know,

1252
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: with Ben Bolan, who's also a recurring guest on Daily

1253
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:41,560
Speaker 1: Zeitgeys Folks with no and Matt Frederick another amazing I

1254
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:45,080
Speaker 1: heart executive producer and uh in podcast Hose. And then

1255
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm on a show called Movie Crush with Chuck Bryant

1256
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: from Stuff You Should Know Are We just kind of

1257
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: talk about movies once a week. And then I'm also

1258
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: on Ridiculous History with Ben Bolan again, who is like

1259
01:12:57,080 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: my official work wife. So yeah, all of those are

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01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:03,360
Speaker 1: everywhere you get podcasts. Uh And is there a tweet

1261
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:06,599
Speaker 1: or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying. Well,

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01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:08,639
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say enjoying, but I think it's a really

1263
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 1: good point. Celeste ng, who wrote Little Fires Everywhere, did

1264
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: a really nice hot take based on some things I

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01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 1: think that. Trump Junior said at Sepack, it's weird how

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Speaker 1: it's cancelation and quotes when an artist's own trust wants

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Speaker 1: to remove racist work, it's no longer proud of. And

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Speaker 1: that was in response to, you know, Trump saying the

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Speaker 1: Muppets are canceled, but it's literally just Disney putting a

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Speaker 1: little you know, historical disclaimers saying we're aware that some

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Speaker 1: of these jokes might not have aged well over time,

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Speaker 1: or like say the fact that, like you can't get

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Speaker 1: Song of the South on Disney Plus right. Uh, Miles,

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Speaker 1: where can people find you with tweet you've been enjoying?

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Speaker 1: Find me on Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also

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Speaker 1: the other podcast for Twenty Day Fiance where Sophia and

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Speaker 1: I are currently on a campaign, or try and get

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Speaker 1: Seth Throgan to come on the podcast ever since he

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Speaker 1: interacted with one of Sophia's tweets, So support us as

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Speaker 1: we endeavor for the Canadian stoner to grace his presence

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Speaker 1: on that podcast. You know, he's also but he's a potter.

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Speaker 1: He's really into pottery and making pottery. He throws, he

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Speaker 1: throws them, you know what I mean? Um, a couple

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Speaker 1: of tweets. I like one. It's from uh Katherine Spears,

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Speaker 1: former guest, Great Great Food writer. She tweeted, I once

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Speaker 1: dated a guy who had been dumped for Will Forte,

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Speaker 1: and he got really angry that I didn't think Will

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Speaker 1: Forte was the hottest guy on U s no um.

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Speaker 1: Another one is from Lindsay Gibbs at Lynn's Sports l

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Speaker 1: I n Z s p O RTS, tweeting, stop glamorizing,

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Speaker 1: quote the grind and start glamorizing. Getting seven plus hours

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Speaker 1: of sleep at night, having healthy relationships, feeling safe at work,

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Speaker 1: taking sick days, being paid a living wage, working hard

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Speaker 1: when you're at work, UH, boundaries, and self caring your

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Speaker 1: way to success one hundred percent. These are words that

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Speaker 1: we do not use enough when talking about navigating our

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Speaker 1: live work lives. So yeah, sleep, healthy boundaries, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. Self care like not torturing yourself then

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Speaker 1: telling yourself it's gonna be okay. Don't listen that voice

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Speaker 1: in my head that's been riding with me since birth,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of been fucking with me. Um. And then

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Speaker 1: also Reductress at Reductors tweets quiz did your souls meet

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Speaker 1: in a past life? Or did you match on Hinge

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Speaker 1: five years ago? Oh? Man? Yeah, the world is like

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Speaker 1: a half memory now. It's like, I know, I fucking

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Speaker 1: recognized that Hinge five years ago. How you doing? I'm married? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Tweet I enjoyed. Michelle King tweeted all negative book reviews

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Speaker 1: should end with quote. Despite all this, it's pretty impressive

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Speaker 1: that this person wrote a book. Uh, and I agree.

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Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter, Jack or Score O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're

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Speaker 1: at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook

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Speaker 1: campage on a website daily zis dot com where we

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Speaker 1: post our episodes and our foot notes. We link off

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Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about today's episode, as

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Speaker 1: well as the song that we recommend. What song is

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Speaker 1: our recommendation today? And you can check this on Spotify.

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Speaker 1: It's called moon Lit and it's by this producer Context

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Speaker 1: Kale and t E k s Uh. You know, just

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Speaker 1: a big, low fi kind of beat maker that I'm

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Speaker 1: really enjoying. If you're not following that on Instagram, you're

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Speaker 1: missing my current musical beat journey because I just started

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Speaker 1: making beats again. And if you check in you could

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Speaker 1: watch me cook Baby. So I'm loving this sample based

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Speaker 1: hip hop. So more sample based hip hop from context

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Speaker 1: Moonlit wonderful. All right, we're gonna link off to that

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Speaker 1: in the footnotes. The Daily zeitgeis are production by Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, visit the Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your

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Speaker 1: favorite shows. That is going to do it for this morning.

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Speaker 1: We're back this afternoon to tell you what's trending and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you all that bite high